Thursday, December 19, 2013

Hi everyone, I just wanted to pop in to say that with the holidays (2 days left of work for me, yay!) almost in full swing the Inspired By challenges will be taking a couple weeks off. We will be back on Thursday January 2. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thursday, December 12, 2013

I can't believe this is the 100th challenge here on Inspired By!!! I have had a lot of fun coming up with, creating for and seeing what you all have created for all of the challenges! I love these upcycled stockings and thought they would make a good inspiration piece.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

With Christmas just around the corner I decided to go with this inspiration photo. Well that, and I can pretend they are celebrating my birthday, which is today ;)

How will you be inspired? colors, celebration, Christmas, vintage, checks, wreath, tree...

I pulled out the colors and used my Finnley collection by Glitz. After a few months with not a lot of crafting mojo, it feels good to have fun in my craft room again! The twine is from American Crafts and the chipboard hashtag sentiment is from Creative Embellishments.

The layered die cut circle paper is actually a scrap left over from another project, love when I can use my scraps.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Rules for Playing:

Create a NEW project for this challenge.

Be sure to link your blog with a direct link to the post you would like me to visit.

Please put a link on your post to this challenge.

Create a project with no more than 5 challenges including this challenge.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

I decided to create a layout in which I pulled out the yellow and blue (loving these 2 colors lately). I used the Cut & Paste Charm Collection by My Mind's Eye along with the Ooh-La-La stamp set from TAWS and a couple of Silhouette cuts. I have saved these chipboard clothing tags for awhile and putting them into a little canvas bag helped to create the shopping theme. Another thing I always save are the little chain links that come on some clothing pieces.

Another thing I always save are the little chain links that come on some clothing pieces.

I used this fun sketch from Audrey. Not only is Audrey an AMAZING scrapbooker, she creates the most awesome sketches too!

I can't wait to see what you create!

Rules for Playing:

Create a NEW project for this challenge.

Be sure to link your blog with a direct link to the post you would like me to visit.

Please put a link on your post to this challenge.

Create a project with no more than 5 challenges including this challenge.

I pulled out the colors, plaid, distressing and even a touch of jewels with my sequins. I used the Lakeside Collection by Pebbles, along with a chipboard piece from Creative Embellishments (love these chipboard words!) and of course a bit of old denim scraps. I added some random stitching lines to mimic the look and feel of sewn/distressed denim.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Rules for Playing:

Create a NEW project for this challenge.

Be sure to link your blog with a direct link to the post you would like me to visit.

Please put a link on your post to this challenge.

Create a project with no more than 5 challenges including this challenge.

I pulled out the colors and the trio and created a halloween card with the new Happy Haunting collection by My Mind's Eye. I cut the trio of circles with my Silhouette and the spider with my Chic & Scary cricut cartridge. The stamp is from CTMH and the twine is The Twinery.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Rules for Playing:

Create a NEW project for this challenge.

Be sure to link your blog with a direct link to the post you would like me to visit.

Please put a link on your post to this challenge.

Create a project with no more than 5 challenges including this challenge.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

I am getting into the Halloween spirit, although I haven't brought out my Halloween decorations yet - waiting until after Thanksgiving which here in Canada is this coming weekend. I like the non traditional colors of this vintage Halloween picture.

When I saw the photo I immediately thought of my Witch Hazel collection by October Afternoon. I pulled out the colors and was inspired by the witchy shadow. I then used a sentiment from one of the new Halloween sets by Unity. I love this sentiment - my hubby was really scared of the Flying Monkeys in the Wizard of Oz when he was a kid so I giggle when I read it.